Socket for snap fasteners



Mar. 27, 1923, 1,449,706

J. H. STYLES SOCKET FOR SNAP FASTENERS Filed NOV. 8, 1921 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 27, 1923.

UNITED STAT JOSEPH H. sTYr-ns', or LONG ISLAND cITY,

ES PATENT OFF-ICE. v

YORK, AS'SiGNGR "TQ BUTTON MACHINE 00., on NEW YORK, A eoIt'PonixT-iorr or YORK.

socK-ET FOR SNAP FASTENERS.

Application filed November 8, 1921-. Serial No. 513,705.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. STYLES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Long Island City, borough and county of Queens, State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Socket for Snap Fasteners, of which the following is a speclfication.

This invention is a socket for use in connection with a stud member of that type of separable fastener commonly known as a ball and socket fastener and in extensive use on a large variety of apparel articles, such as gloves, caps, etc.

It is not unusual in prior socket members to employ a coating of one materialor another, usually in the nature of enamel, upon the exposed surface of the cap which is an integral part of the socket member. socket members have been heretofore constructed, the coating on the cap disintegrates and cracks during the operation of applying the socket member to an article by the application of pressure, and this is due to the fact that the contour and dimensions of the coated cap are modified by the pressure applied to said cap in the act of affixing the socket member to the article.

My invention seeks to eliminate the disintegration and cracking of the enamel coating on the cap of the socket. member, and to this end I provide said socket member with a cap of such formation as to preclude distortion in that area covered by the coatmg.

Accordingly, my invention embodies a socket member the cap of which is provided with an inset shoulder or ledge positioned intermediate the enamel receiving surface and certain infolded lips of said member. The cap of the socket member is attached to the article by an expanding eyelet adapted to be thrust through the material of the article and to be received within the space of the cap, said eyelet being distorted by pressure applied in a direction to expand it within the infolded part of the cap so as to attach the latter and the eyelet to the article and without resulting in any deformation of the cap, whereby the coating (enamel) remains intact and is free from cracking under the pressure required for the attachment of the socket member.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a plan view of the metal blank and this blank is drawn into production of the cap ofmy Figure 3. y I I Figure 4 is an elevation of the carp bodying my improvement, and

Fig-tire 4* a sectional view on an en larged scale of the cap shown in Figure 4.

Figure 5 is a [plan view of the cap shown inFiguret.

Figure 6 is a eectihhal View of. the cap and an eyelet assembled for mutual co-operation when ready for attachment to an article, and

Figure 7 is a sectional view of the cap and eyelet after been subjected to r ssure and attached fixedly to the article.

As shown inFigiires '6 and 7, my socket member comprises a eapA an eyelet but in the production of the cap the metal is manipulated or fashioned as tti produce on said cap an inset shoulder or ledge a positioned intermediate the, exposed air: face of the capand theinfolded metal surrounding an orifice 7) within which the eyelet B isexpanded for co operation with the infolded metal in efi'ect ing theattachment of the cap without deforming the exposed surface of saidtap,

As is usual in the art, the metal of the cap is blanked or stamped to produce a blank C with lips or prongs 0, see Figure 1, cup shape at in Figure 2, and thereafter the lips or prongs c are infolded at 0 in Figure 3 so as to produce the inner portion of the cap, said infolded metal resulting in the orifice b on the inner side of the cap, whereas the outer side or exposed part of the cap is usually of convex formation, see Figures 3, 3 4 and 4 The essentially new feature of my cap is the ledge or shoulder a, shown in Figures 4: and 4 the same bein folded portion 0 and the exposed convex surface of the cap. This ledge or shoulder is produced during the operation of infolding the metal at c or subsequently thereto, and said ledge or shoulder is in a plane radial (at a right angle) to the vertical transverse axial line of the cap. Said shoulder joins intermediate the inthe infolded part (which is adapted to be deformed by the application of pressure) with the exposed convex surface adapted to remain in an intact condition and to be free from deformation under the application of pressure, the shoulder presenting a relatively stiff section of metal between the bendable and non-bendable portions of the cap.

In the operation of applying the socket member to material, such as D in Figures'G and 7 the eyelet B. is thrust through said material, and inserted into the chamber of the cap, having passed through the orifice 6. Pressure is now applied in the usual'manner and by appropriate means for the purpose of expanding eyelet Band upsetting the same, such expansion of the eyeletwithin the cap resulting in a displacement of the bendable portion c of the cap so that the expanded and upset eyelet and the expanded part 0 of the cap are mutually affected for the attachment of the cap and eyelet fixedly to the material. It is to be noted, however, that; the pressure has no appreciable effect upon the ledge or shoulder a of the cap, nor upon the exposed portion of the cap to which the coating is applied, hence there is no deformation in the contour or dimensions of the exposed area of the cap by theforce of the pressure and consequently any coating on the exposed surface will not be affected by the attachment to the article, i.-e., said coating is'not cracked or disintegrated.

Obviously, the coating may be applied to the cap by spraying, dipping, brushing or in any preferred mode, such coating being applied subsequently to the formation of the cap and prior to its assemblage with the eyelet for attachment to the article.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a socket member, a cap provided with a ledge or shoulder extending inwardly from the margin of a non-bendable exposed face, said ledge or shoulder being positioned intermediate said exposed face and a bendable portion which latter is adapted to be distorted by the expansion of an attaching eyelet. V g,

2. In a socket member, a cap provided with a ledge or shoulder extending inwardly from the margin of said cap, said ledge or shoulder beingintermediate an exposed face of convex formation and a bendable portion which is unitary with the ledge or shoulder, combined with an eyelet expanded within the bendable portion without distorting said exposed convex face of the cap. v

3. In a socket member, a cap provided with an exposed face and with an infolded portion bendable under pressure, saidvcap being characterized by the presence of. a ledge or shoulder positioned intermediate the bendable portion and the exposed face, said ledge or shoulder extending inwardly from the margin of the exposed face and defining the limits of the bendable portion.

4. In a socket member, a cap provided with an infolded bendable portion and with an exposed face of convex formation, said cap being provided with a ledge'or shoulder extending inwardly from the margin thereof and said ledge or shoulder being positioned intermediate the'bendable portion and the convex face.

In a socket member, a cap provided with a ledge or shoulder intermediate a bendable portion and a non-bendable portion, said ledge or shoulder extending inwardly from the margin of the non-bendable portion, combined with. an eyelet expanded within the cap for displacing the bendable portion without distorting the non-bendable portion.

In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name this 7th day of November, 1921.

JOSEPH I-I. STYLES. 

